ActiveState Founder Steps Aside

Posted by chrisd on Friday August 9, 2002 @11:18AM from the if-you-don't-know-perl-you-don't-know... dept.

Lumpish Scholar writes "ActiveState founder Dick Hardt has quit. Or, as the press release puts it, "ActiveState Expands Board & Founder Steps Aside." No reason for the resignation was given, unless you count, "The company is looking to become a $100 million company, and they're looking for someone ... that [sic.] has that experience." ActiveState (profitably!) distributes its own proprietary products, and also both free and commercially supported versions of Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT, having given back significantly to the free / Open Source communities associated with those languages."

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Re:With a name like that... by SoCalChris · 2002-08-09 11:43 · Score: 0, Troll

Yes, on most forms he would be named Hardt, Dick.
two words by r00tarded · 2002-08-09 12:08 · Score: 2, Troll

Ars Digita

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Dick has an extremely large ego. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-08-09 12:14 · Score: 0, Troll

Fact is, if you speak to someone who works or has worked at ActiveState, you'll hear that Dick H. has a humungous ego and is lacking in the interpersonal skills dept. Briefly, Dick is a dick. Personality or personal reasons could have as much to do with Dick leaving as anything else. I would be unsurprised to learn that the growth spin is just that... spin.